Delaware State Journal And Statesman

PUNISHMENT FOR GUERILLA OUTRAGES.
—Gen. Emory, who has assumed command
of the Department of West Virginia, has
issued the following order :
1. The frequent raids upon the lines of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and
attacks upon trains of the same by gangs
of rebel guerillas, having demonstrated
the fact that the movements of these
parties are known to (if they themselves
are not guided and encouraged by) the
disloval citizens residing in the vicinity
of these raids and attacks; and it being
held that timely information could be
given by those citizens to our forces, by
which such raids and attacks could be
prevented, it is ordered that, hereafter,
whenever such raids or attacks shall take
place within the limits of this command,
the property of all disloyal citizens resid-
ing within an area of five miles (or such
other distances as may be designated)
south of the place of such raids and
attacks shall be immediately burned.
2. In case the property of any Union
citizen residing within the limits of this
command is destroyed or appropriated
by guerillas, a levy for twice the amount
in value will at once be made on the
property of known disloyal citizens in the
vicinity of such outrage, for the purpose
of restitution to the Union sufferers.
3. Whenever a Union citizen or soldier
shall be murdered within the limits of
this command, a rebel sympathizer, nearest
resident to the place of murder, will be
immediately hung, in retaliation for the
murder of such Union citizen or soldier.